Friday, December 12, 2008

Growing in Unity Day Five

Welcome to my final day hosting Growing in Unity! I hope you have enjoyed seeing my projects as much as I have enjoyed sharing them!! I know I've kind of talked up this last project of mine, but I REALLY LOVE IT!!! So, without further ado, here is my lovely little Christmas Cocktail recipe book!












My parents love making special cocktails at Christmas time . . . it is so festive to have a yummy drinkwith a candy cane over the edge of the glass, while sitting in front of the fire! If you are not a drinker, you could make yours a recipe book of Christmas Sweets/Desserts, and use all the yummy cupcake and other sweets stamps from Unity to accent your pages!!

I think the SU! Top Note die makes fabulous little pages for a mini album like this. I covered chipboard with Wassail paper. The pages are this AWESOME paper from WorldWin, called double mates. They are different shades of the same color on each side. So if every other page set looks different, it is!! One set of pages is bright red and green, the other is dark red and green. There are LOTS of things I would do differently if I made this little recipe book again. I'm not a scrapper, so placement of embellishments is hard for me, somehow. I would probably print the recipes on an ivory cardstock next time too, and sponge the edges of everything, to add to the distressed look that the cover has. Oh well, live and learn! I'm still pretty pleased with it!

Thanks for joining me this week! Have a great weekend!!

13 comments:

Gretchen said...

What a great idea! I love that top note die and never thought to make it into a mini book! Thanks for the indpirstion!

Jacqueline said...

This is awesome jess! Your rocked the week! I know I said that before but thought I would remind you!! ;)

Ashley Newell said...

This is awesome! I love it! And this would be such a fun gift too!

Maria said...

Check you out! That is awesome! Great job!

Maria said...

Check you out! That is awesome! Great job!

Kerry said...

No wonder you saved this for today...it is fabulous and you used so many wonderful Unity stamps! What a great gift idea for people who entertain a lot at Christmas time!

Jenn said...

So cute and practical ;) Love it!

Great job all week long!

Heather said...

Hey Jess, I am so sorry I haven't commented through the week BUT you have ROCKED this week. I love each one of your projects and I feel so inspired from your BLOG. Thanks so much for sharing!!!

Michelle said...

such a cute idea! love it... great job this week =)

Lisa Hetrick said...

Hey Jess. What a great end to a fabulous week of inspiration. Thanks for sharing. Love the Little Monkey clip. Just fabby.

Lisa

Unknown said...

I love this!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously too cute!!!

Joy said...

love it Jess!

FibreJunky said...

That came out really cute. Looks like you had a lot of fun this week. I'm going to have a LOT to live up to by the time my week comes around in April!